Film Catalogue (8/33)

2010 (M) 55 min

In 1915 the biggest killer of young Australian males was Gallipoli. Today the biggest killer of young men aged 18-25 years is the road. Young men are dying in high speed, single vehicle crashes, crumpled in metal coffins, on lonely rural roads. Why do they die? Why do they live? Speed is hypnotic. Risk is freedom. Cars... more

2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 55 min

The remarkable story of William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg, two shy men who joined the ranks of the most important scientists of the twentieth century. "Ideally suited to whet the scientific appetites of teenagers" - Dr Michael Kindler, Principal, Stromlo High School, ACT more

1992 (G) 50 min

DRIVING WITH RICHARD is the story of a remarkable friendship between two women - Deirdre Croft and Carley Pukallus. Deirdre and Carley have provided support for each other for over six years as they cope with the trauma, hardship and enormous challenge of caring for their handicapped children. more

2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 11 min

This ‘hybrid’ blend of music, documentary and drama is set in the 1920s in outback Australia, and evokes a time when it was illegal for white Australians and Aboriginal people to marry. Based on a ballad by Ted Egan, the film pays tribute to the role of Aboriginal women in the pastoral history of frontier Australia. more

1999 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 56 min

On 26 September 1892 when the Czech composer, Antonin Dvorak, arrived in New York to direct the National Conservatory of Music of America, he was given the daunting task of creating a school of music for a young nation boundlessly confident in its resources, but still looking to Europe for a sense of identity. more

1997 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 53 min

A Dying Shame tells personal stories of families and individuals within the remote Aboriginal community in Borroloola and the struggles of these people and their families who have to cope with poor health and an ineffectual health system. more

2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 104 min

1980 (G) 14 min

NOW DIGITALLY REMASTERED. EFFACEMENT shows a Japanese Noh maskmaker, Taniguchi Akiko, at work on her masks in her Tokyo studio. She carves the mask, paints it and moves it in the pace of an actor's movements on the traditional Noh stage. more

2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min

2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 50 min

Electric Shadows: The Story of a Cinema tracks the history of the cinema, through both the good times and the tough times, and looks at the cinema’s emergence as something of an icon in the Canberra cultural scene. INCLUDES EXTRA FEATURES. more

2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 48 min

A portrait of the remarkable Princess Elettra, daughter of the pioneer of wireless communication, Guglielmo Marconi. The inspired industrialist created an empire that Elettra inherited when she was a child. The Princess now plans to turn her crumbling family palace into a radiant academy for the arts and science. more

2007 (M) 83 min

From filmmaker Rob Nugent, an elegiac portrait of the changes brought by the arrival of an industrial gold mine in a remote region of West Africa, and a testament to the universal human desire for a better life. more

2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 360 min

When her 24 year old daughter Sylvia was diagnosed with Endometriosis, Lesley Freedman searched in vain for information on this debilitating and incurable disease. She discovered that although more than 1 in 10 women suffer from Endo there was very little accessible, evidence-based advice on treatment options. more

2014 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG)

2018 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 73 min

When the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC agrees to repatriate stolen human bones from northern Australia, an Aboriginal elder creates a ceremony that restores his ancestors’ spirits to their homeland. more

2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 93 min

EVER THE LAND explores the bond between people and their land through the landmark design and construction of a unique “Living Building” by one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most passionately independent Maori tribes, Ngai Tuhoe. more